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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. StarRocks

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperAmazonOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhereThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2007200920102020
Current release3.2.0, December 20223.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTJDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlanguser defined functions
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)yes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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